"Bah, it's really refreshing, it's been a long time since I've drunk in such a spacious room, and it feels good that I don't have to go to the bar, Liao Xueqing, right? Don't be too careful, ordinary mercenaries are like this." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Sixteen Nights exhaled and put down the wine glass.

Liao Xueqing's assigned room was large. To be honest, Dior thinks that the whole "Carlibar" can be compared to Yuru's room. It seems that he is indeed not an ordinary character, but Dior is busy pouring wine on Saki at this time. She showed a sinister expression, and took advantage of the fact that she didn't notice herself when she was chatting with Liao Xueqing on the side, and handed the open beer can to Xiao Sakiye, and watched the four-year-old child smack her lips in disgust after taking a sip of beer, and then handed it back to Dio obediently.

Dio doesn't like children, but Sakuya has to say that it's really cute, so well-behaved and cute without crying or making trouble, seriously, if Dior thinks about it now, maybe she will agree to take care of her. She snickered and retrieved the beer can, sitting up as if nothing had happened, only to find Sixteen Nights staring at her with an almost murderous gaze.

"You see, Sakuya is so well-behaved, you don't have to worry about her learning badly, right?" Dior said solemnly, "Such a self-controlled child is really rare, and after more training, she will definitely be a perfect and chic maid." ”

"Why is it a maid, how can my little Sakuya go back to do that kind of work?!" Sixteen Night leaned over to Dior's side, and his face flushed with alcohol almost touched Dior's face.

The girl pressed her cheek viciously and pushed her away.

"Don't underestimate a maid, you guy! Do you know what it takes to be a perfect and dashing maid? This is the most difficult profession in human history to be the best! First of all, a maid must be proficient in the use of cold weapons and hot weapons, and it is necessary to protect the safety of her master. Second, the maid must have the strength to disassemble the chariot with her bare hands, and a good maid can do it, and she can't even disassemble the chariot, let alone such a trivial thing as cleaning? Third, the maid must have the heart to serve her master completely! This is the most important thing!"

"Sister?" Sakuya tilted her head and said in a milky accent of English.

"Wait, is this the kind of maid being? I'm also English, I don't read much, don't lie to me. Sixteen Nights retreated in astonishment.

"Of course, it is impossible to call a maid the most difficult profession in the world to be the first. I know a maid who is human but can stand and use the XM500 anti-equipment with one hand, and I know a maid who can pause... Oh no, a 14-year-old Lori maid who can single-handedly take on several classes of military power, and a maid who can defeat the unspeakable demon god with just a bandage. Their ability as maids is undoubted, but as maids, they have the most top-notch combat power, don't you think this is the top-notch maid?"

Dior's words frightened Sixteen Nights and Liao Xueqing, who was listening from the sidelines, were stunned, and the two looked at each other, and they both saw an unbelievable look in each other's eyes.

Is it true that a maid is like this? It turns out that a maid who can't disassemble a chariot with his bare hands, can't use the XM500 with one hand, can't single-handedly use a company of maids, isn't it a good maid? Is it all a lie in the book? Such a maid is a real maid?

"Oh!!" Saki on the side showed a look of 'I don't know very much, but I'm amazing', and her eyes flashed as if she wanted to be a maid too.

"That's... I don't really understand the culture of Britain, but our maids of the Ming Empire, uh, that is, maids, don't need to do these things. Liao Xueqing wiped her sweat and said with a wry smile.

"A maid and a maid are different, after all, a maid is an accessory of the master, it can be said that she is a slave, but a maid is different!" Dior stepped on the table with uncharacteristically excited excitement and clenched his right fist, "The maid and the master are in an employment relationship, that is to say, the origin of the maid is that after the French Revolution, many women who sold themselves were liberated from the status of slaves and maids and obtained employment relations. You can even give an opinion on what the master does, and leave if you are unhappy, and the master who can let the excellent maid serve be considered an excellent nobleman, which is completely different!"

"Wait a minute, why are you so obsessed with the maid?" Sixteen Nights was overwhelmed by Dior's momentum, but he didn't forget to take the wine bottle on the table to avoid being 'accidentally injured' by Dior.

"Because it's a maid!

"I want that kind of relationship that can be completely trusted," Liao Xueqing said sharply, "My father told me that maids are like this." ”

"Clams... Probably, right?" Dior suddenly lost his character, and sat down listlessly.

As soon as the girl took out her pipe, she saw Saki running into Sixteen Night's arms to hide, staring at her with blue eyes. Dior reluctantly withdrew his pipe, Liao Xueqing glanced at the boss, was silent for a moment, and still asked:

"You... When was the first killing?"

"Ten years old. ”

"Twelve years old. ”

Dio and Sixteen Nights replied separately.

"Well, I officially joined the Hunter Department at that time, and I happened to have an emergency, so I was taken out, and in the end I was almost wiped out, if I hadn't been brought over, maybe everyone would have died there," Sixteen Night held Sakuya in his left hand and a beach in his right hand, "After that, I officially began to participate in various missions, and there was nothing special." ”

"What about Dior?" Liao Xueqing looked at the girl curiously.

"Me?" Dior pondered for a moment, but decided to speak, "I was born in a remote English town, my father was a thief, a robber, and did all kinds of evil, and my mother was a prostitute who was sold from afar and didn't know which country, and couldn't speak English. At a very early age, my mother died. My dad didn't care about me, but he didn't sell me to a prostitution parlor because he cared for me the most. He asked me to steal, and thanks to him, I know how to survive in that environment. And then... When I was ten years old..."

Speaking of this, Dior paused, and she immediately remembered the words left in the book by the second generation of "DIO" - 'Don't fear the past, don't fear yourself, don't fear the future.' Then, she smiled.

"At that time, I was taken by a man who came to town to do business and said that he wanted to take me to a distant place to perform. Of course I refused, this kind of perversion of human traffickers at first glance. After I saw through it, he was ready to do it, intending to rape/rape me, but I killed him with the dagger I carried with him when he wasn't looking, and then I knew that I looked a little eye-catching, as you can see, I have always dressed like this. ”

After saying that, Dior still took out his pipe, lit it, and took a deep breath.

"Sorry for bringing back bad memories for you. When Liao Xueqing heard there, she immediately apologized.

"Well, I didn't expect you to have this kind of past," Sixteen Night walked up to her with an evil face, hooking the girl's chin, "It's not easy to deal with disgusting men, right? Poof!!"

Without hesitation, Dio slammed his fist into Sixteen Nights' stomach, and then raised his pipe with ease.

"It's because I'm older, so it doesn't matter what happens like that. After that, it was recorded in my information, right? The Connor family took me in, and I was doing well. ”

Better be a little more moisturized, she thought to herself. Although the Hunters' Department's monthly reward of 50,000 pounds is indeed a lot, it is too dangerous and easy to involve unexpected enemies.

"Alright, that's all for us veterans! ”

"Ahh Good. Liao Xueqing nodded.

The Ming Empire was the only one of the few great powers that still followed the imperial system, and this vast empire retains many of the traditions of the past, and even the simple wooden houses are still preserved in many places. The decline of handicrafts and agriculture did not deprive the country's once large population of their homes, and huge factories sprung up, and people who had nothing to do chose to work in the factories.

The Ming Kingdom was the last country to adopt paper money among the major countries, and the smelted silver ingots tattooed with the official seal of the Ming Empire could even be exchanged for a 100-square-meter room in England. After the adoption of paper money, the Ming Empire issued paper money with a face value of 100, 50, 10, and the fragmentary loose money still used ancient coins, but the content of the paper money of the Ming Empire is a little staggering.

The 100 'tael' banknote refers to the fact that this kind of banknote can be exchanged for 100 taels of silver, and the exchange rate with the pound sterling is currently stable at about 1 to 6, that is to say, 100 taels can be exchanged for 600 pounds. In an age when you can buy a suburban villa for £15,000, it's so exaggerated that Dior has a hard time imagining where the exchange rate came from.

But she was immediately relieved that the higher the exchange rate, the better, and the exchange rate was used to restrict the export of handicrafts that were originally prevalent in the Ming Empire, no wonder a blue and white porcelain pipe cost 1,000 pounds. In the UK, an annual income of £500 is considered wealthy. Don't look at Dior's monthly income of 50,000 pounds, in fact, half of it can be left after tax. This is also the amount of remuneration that only the "able" have, and the average mercenary is only about 4,000 pounds, which is still because the salary of front-line combatants is much higher than that of civilians.

If Dio had asked Yuru, the girl would have been paid only £1,000 a month, and in addition to the huge income from the patents she had invented, she was actually considered a 'poor' in the army.

The Hunter Department mediated the armed conflict with the Soviet-Ming Communist League, and demanded high remuneration to compensate for the high cost of employing the able. It turned out that Old York was trying to make Dio into a contract of ability, so the reward would be amazingly high.

In the Ming Empire, people like them were treated even better than they could be.

"The year-end bonus of the Shenji Battalion is 100,000 taels?" Dior almost jumped up from his chair, "Not counting the additional rewards for the mission?"

"Well, that, Dior, the Ming Empire is an annual labor system, and I don't have a penny for less than a year, and I'm just a recruit now, so I won't have so much money. Liao Xueqing was taken aback by her.

The 100,000 taels also have a basic income of 600,000 pounds, and basically you can run out to do business after working for a year. However, it soon became clear to Dior that such a reward was only available to a 'few'.

Most of the Shenji Battalion are still just ordinary people, and 100,000 Yulu should only be a very small number of people.